A Sampling of Live Concert Performances
2003 – 2012
Julia Jumps by Harmony Grisman
In Dreams from “Indian Singing” by Ron Jeffers, text: Gail Tremblay
Wonfa Nyem trad. Akan (Ghana) with special guest artist, Master Drummer Obo Addy
It Takes Village by Joan Szymko, text; trad West Afrtican adage adapted by the composer.
The Beauty of Your Dreams by Joan Szymko, text: Eleanor Roosevelt, (adapted by the composer)
Love Is The Mother by the Righteous Mothers, arr. J. Szymko
Ave Maria by David MacIntyre
Ella’s Song by Bernice Johnson Reagon
Malibongwe/Asikhatali trad. South African
Wild Women Don’t Get the Blues by Althea Dickerson & Thomas Dorsey, arr. Ruth Huber
Shen khar venakhi trad.Georgian, text: King Demetre I
Promising Sky by Claudia Schmidt, with special guest artist Claudia Schmidt
Todo o Meu Ser by Joan Szymko, text adapted from a translation by K. Rasmussen of Oripngalik (Netsilik Shaman) Portuguese translation by I.Ferrand. (world premiere)
Tundra by Ola Gjello, text: Charles A. Silvestri (west coast premiere)
She Rises by Catherine Dalton (world premiere)
1992 – 2002
Ise Oluwa trad. Yoruba song (Nigeria) arr. Nitanju Bolade Casel, spoken text: Hildegard of Bingen
Aurora by David York, text: Judith Barrington
Call by Joan Szymko, text: Alla Reneé Bozarth
Somebody from “Where I Live, A Breast Cancer Oratorio” Diane Benjamin
Welcome to the Circle by Betsy Rose
Yo le Canto by David Brunner, text: Jakeline Rago
I Am by Joan Szymko, text: “The Womanly Song of God” by Catherine de Vink